Books and Resources

This post should be a constantly updated one enumerating all the books I've read and enjoyed or learned from. I will most likely provide links to such books. I do NOT encourage people to not buy these books and just read them online. In fact, I bought most, if not all of them.

Books

Modern Operating Systems 4th Edition --- Andrew Tanenbaum

A must read book for low-level enthusiasts. It explains operating systems from zero with connecting it to history as well so that you see the exact evolution. The book itself is quite modern and still applies today conceptually.

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

To be fully read An amazing book to get introduced to what LLVM accomplishes.

Design Patterns --- Element of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Another must read for any OOP user. Describes high-level strategies and patterns that makes you better and planning and implementing complex OOP applications.

Websites

Refactoring Guru

A great quick reference for design patterns.

Movies

Erlang: The Movie

A movie about the Erlang language. Even if you don't plan to use the language itself, the Actor-Model paradigm can be implemented/used in any language. Some people hail it as the replacement of OOP.

What is this place

Well, this shall be my blogging environment for the future. Currently, I'm working on multiple interesting projects that deserve some write-ups. I do think making such documents might help me deepen my understanding of said subjects.

How was this place created

I never had any experience with blogging before. Initially, I wanted to host my own website with some custom dynamic features (such as a built-in editor for writing these blog Markdown files), but I soon realized that putting in so much work for a technology that already exists is not worth it. That's when I got Hugo recommended by pskrgag (who has a great personal website built with it here). So I started reading about it and quickly realized how awesome it is. A static site generator not only ensures quick load times but also makes it possible to host my blogs on GitHub paired with GitHub Actions! I love automation so I decided to ditch the idea about making my own blogging platform. This is when I started looking into Hugo and that's how I came across Zola. A bit of a history lesson: Jelkyll was the original tool used to do static site generation, however it became increasingly slow. That's how Hugo came along with its blazing fast Go generator. However Hugo's template files were notoriously hard to understand. That's how Zola came along. Written in Rust, it often provides faster generation times (although the difference between Hugo's and Zola's performance is marginal) and offers a more transparent template system. Given the growing popularity of Zola and my Rust fanaticism, I ended up creating this site with Zola. As you can see, it works perfectly well and offers a beautiful (well, at least in my eyes) UI.